Digital rights groups in America have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Facebook after it "purposefully messed with people’s minds" in a "secretive and non-consensual psychological experiment".
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint against the social network on Thursday, alleging that the study had violated the terms of Facebook’s 20-year agreement with the FTC to protect users’ privacy.
The actions of EPIC follow news that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has launched an inquiry into the "emotional contagion" study that changed the emotional content of users’ News Feeds to examine how positive and negative feelings spread through the site.
The continuing furore over the researcg has forced Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to ‘express regret’ about how the study was communicated to the public – but not to apologize for conducting it in the first place.
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